[Sarcoidosis activity in a comparison of the tuberculin test and the endoscopic picture in a randomized clinical...

The study population consisted of 100 patients with sarcoidosis, selected by method of accidental selection. According to clinical form of sarcoidosis, the sample was divided, in three groups: group of patients with chronic form of sarcoidosis (SHFS)--36 patients, group of patients with acute form of sarcoidosis (SAFS)--46 patients, and group of patients with asymptomatic form of sarcoidosis (SAsFS)--18 patients. The aim of study was to determine whether there were statistically significant differences between the groups of different sarcoidosis clinical forms in diagnosis time in connection with tuberculin reaction, endoscopic picture and index of sarcoidosis activity? Which level of correlation was between index of sarcoidosis activity and tuberculin reaction, respectively endoscopic picture on observed groups of sarcoidosis patients? On the basis of our results we reached the following conclusions: there was significant correlation between magnitude of tuberculin reaction and index of sarcoidosis activity in SAsFS, in SAFS correlation there was no significance and in SHFS there was no correlation. In all of three groups the most frequent was endoscopic picture of enlarged and irregularly arranged capillaries with yellowish plaques on bronchial mucous with average index of activity (6.7).